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Enlightenment
Despots
Term | Definition |
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War of Austrian Succession | guaranteed Maria Theresa's inheritance of Habsburg throne, ignored by Fredrick the Great |
Count Kaunitz | coalition between France, Austria, and Russia. Marriage of Marie Antoinette and Louis 16th |
Enlightened Despotism | power for good of the people, promote religious toleration, reform legal codes, support education |
Catherine the Great Reforms | restricted torture, limited religious tol. of jews, draft a new enlightened law code |
Pugachev's rebellion | uprising of serfs. to prevent future uprisings, gave nobles privileges and absolute power over estates + serfs |
Russia's territorial expansion | from Poland and Ottoman Empire, Crimean Peninsula, parts of the Black Sea. Prussia, Austria, Russia annexed Polish territory |
Fredrick the Great | supported scientific agriculture, unified national code of law, abolish use of torture, encouragement of immigration of Huguenots and Jews. strengthened Junker's privileges over serfs. |
Joseph II | abolished serfdom and forced labor, religious toleration for all Christians and Jews, reduced influence of Church, reformed judicial system. opposed by nobles. Leopold II repealed Joseph;s reforms |